You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.”

Others on Emotions

Golda Meir

3 quotes

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either”

Neal Shusterman

2 quotes

but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart”

Toni Morrison

2 quotes

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”

Carl Sandburg

2 quotes

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

Balzac

2 quotes

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2 quotes

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”

Madeleine L'Engle

1 quote

Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with e...”

Elizabeth Gilbert

1 quote

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”

Maya Angelou

1 quote

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

Buddha

1 quote

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like gre...”

Amy Poehler

1 quote

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever.”

George Eliot

1 quote

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.”